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TABLE - 18
Night Attendant Service
Number of Patients helped during the year 34
Number of hours for which attendants were supplied 808
A night attendant was supplied for each patient for whom a
request for this service was received. The equivalent figures
for 1965 were 6 patients involving 210 hours. Requests for this
service however, fluctuate continually and therefore the increase
over 1965 cannot be taken as an intimation that a similar expansion
will occur in succeeding years.
The Good Neighbour Service between it's commencement in
June and the end of the year assisted 13 patients, 10 of whom
were still receiving assistance at the end of the year.
RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS
During the year 95 patients were recommended for a recuperative
holiday by general medical practitioners or by Hospitals.
75 availed themselves of the arrangements made for their admission
to various private convalescent homes, the normal period of
convalescence of two weeks applying in 67 instances. Of the
remaining eight patients, seven were recommended for one week
only, and the eighth although recommended for two weeks returned
at the end of a week. The number of recuperative holidays
provided showed only a slight increase on the figure of 71 for
1965.
PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS
Mass Radiography Unit 6B of the North East Metropolitan
Regional Hospital Board visited the Borough between April and
August, 1966 . 26,343 persons (11,890 male and 14,453 female)
were X-rayedatthe sessions held in various parts of the Borough.
Of these, 188 males and 163 females were referred for further
investigation. 104 subsequently being found to be normal.